134 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
‘Female. Upperside similar to male. Underside pale ochreous, with brighter 
ochreous bordering to the narrow fascie and outer margins, and uniformly-covered 
with slightly-defined brownish-ochreous strige ; submarginal ocelli very small, as in 
male. Body beneath and palpi grey-speckled; legs pale ochreous; antenne pale 
ochreous with a dusky subterminal band. 
Expanse, ¢ 3 to 3,9, ? 3,°9 inches, 
Dry-Srason Broop (Plate 129, figs. 1, b, ec, d, e, d 2). 
Melanitis aculeata, Hampson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Beng, 1888, p. 351, 5 9. 

Imaco.—Male. Upperside somewhat paler olivescent-brown than in wet-season 
brood ; outer borders very slightly speckled with purpurescent-cinereous scales and 
brown strige ; cilia dark brown. Forewing with the apex subfalcate, the exterior 
margin broadly angled below the apex; the subapical blackish confluent-spots and 
costal patch obscurely-defined, the upper spot with an ochreous-white pupil, the 
oblique upper bar to costa pale dusky ochreous. Hindwing with two posterior 
submarginal white dots. Underside pale olivescent-brown, washed with grey basally 
and speckled with darker olive-brown strigz, the transverse fasciz on forewing less 
erey and broadly-defined, and speckled with dark brown confluent-strigex ; a strigose 
brown blotch also in the middle of cell of hindwing; submarginal ocelloid spots 
minute, indicated by blackish-edged whitish dots. 
Female. Upperside. Forewing more sharply angled below the apex than in 
male; the apex and exterior margins tinged with reddish ferruginous ; with the 
subapical blackish spots and costal patch more defined, the spots usually whitish 
pupilled, the upper bar paler ochreous and somewhat more distinctly defined. 
Underside. Both wings pale purpurescent-ochreous or ferruginous, with indistinctly 
darker strigz, the fascize narrow, not prominent, their borders slightly washed with 
grey ; the submarginal ocelloid spots as in the male. 
Expanse, ¢ 3,4, 2 3,9 to 3,% inches. 
Hasitat.—South India (Mysore, Nilgiris). 
Distriput1on.—The type specimen of M. Gokala was taken by the late Mr. 8. N. 
Ward in Kanara. Mr. G. F. Hampson (J. A. 8. Beng. 1888, 351) obtained it on the 
“northern slopes of the Nilgiris and Mysore forests at 3000 to 3500 feet elevation,” 
the wet-season form having been captured in July, and the dry-season form in 
September and April. Capt. H. Y. Watson’s Collection contained examples of the 
dry-season form ‘‘ taken at Kathlekan in the Kadur District, Mysore, in November 
and December,” and are referred to, erroneously, under the name M. Gnophodes, in 
Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, p. 3. 
Of the illustrations of this species on our Plate 129, figs. 1, la, represent the 

